Danger Ahead

Danger Ahead

60 mins | Crime, Action, Adventure, Western | Jan. 22, 1940

The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill suspected of trying to get away with the gold. Actually, Maxwell and two henchmen had poured acid on the brake lines, causing the car to crash. Genevieve, daughter of the Mountie chief, suspects Maxwell and Thomas Hatch, president of the bank shipping the gold, but she quickly becomes more trouble than help to Sergeant Renfrew in charge of the investigation. Renfrew and Constable Kelly drive the next shipment but Maxwell plans to make them crash the same way as Hill did. Renfrew steers the vehicle into a hillside and this gives him an idea of what happened to the other car.

Danger Ahead

60 mins | Crime, Action, Adventure, Western | Jan. 22, 1940

Danger Ahead
The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill suspected of trying to get away with the gold. Actually, Maxwell and two henchmen had poured acid on the brake lines, causing the car to crash. Genevieve, daughter of the Mountie chief, suspects Maxwell and Thomas Hatch, president of the bank shipping the gold, but she quickly becomes more trouble than help to Sergeant Renfrew in charge of the investigation. Renfrew and Constable Kelly drive the next shipment but Maxwell plans to make them crash the same way as Hill did. Renfrew steers the vehicle into a hillside and this gives him an idea of what happened to the other car.
Producers Criterion Pictures Corp.
Original title Danger Ahead
Directors Ben Chapman, Ralph Staub
Writers Laurie York Erskine, Edward Halperin

Cast

James Newill

as Sgt. Renfrew

Dave O'Brien

as Corporal Kelly

Dorothea Kent

as Genevieve

Dick Rich

as Maxwell

Guy Usher

as Inspector

John Dilson

as Thomas Hatch

Harry Depp

as Jones

David Sharpe

as George Hill

Lester Dorr

as Henchman Lefty

Bob Terry

as Henchman Gimpy

Al Shaw

as Henchman Fergerson

Don Brodie

as Constable

Maude Allen

as Mrs. Hill

Earl Douglas

as ? (Screen cast name: "Eggface"; could be Johnny the Janitor)